Before his recent retirement, Ken was Assistant Director of Studies for Economic History at Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge and a lecturer in local and regional history at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. Together with colleague Dr Joanne Sear, he was the joint author of The Origins of the Consumer Revolution published by Routledge in 2020. He edited a volume on Religious Reformations in Huntingdonshire (2022) and contributed to The Singing Milkmaids (2019) which explored the economic and social history of post restoration Huntingdonshire. Together with wife Pam, he has written three books on the history of Godmanchester.